Localnet

Community marketplace built for minimal infrastructure

2025–present

Django PostgreSQL PostGIS HTMX Alpine.js

problem

A community marketplace platform that needed to be fast, properly moderated, and able to run on a 2GB RAM VPS without sacrificing features.

approach

Django with PostGIS for geo-queries — nearby listings, radius search, location-aware filtering. HTMX for server-driven interactivity without a client-side framework. View-level caching, database indexing for common query patterns, and an async task queue for background jobs. Moderation tools designed in from the start.

outcome

In active development. Architecture decisions have kept memory use well under the VPS budget while maintaining response times suitable for real traffic.